{"id":429706,"date":"2026-01-25T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:14:22","slug":"rock-icon-breaks-silence-after-accusations-he-was-keeping-band-from-reuniting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429706\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock icon breaks silence after accusations he was keeping band from reuniting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bret Michaels has been in the news this week<\/a>, and it has not exactly been positive thanks to his former bandmates in Poison.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the band\u2019s drummer, Rikki Rocket, threw him under the bus, claiming that a reunion has not been possible because Michaels wants too much money. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great offer, I thought,\u201d Rocket told Page Six. \u201cIt didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally what it came to was (guitarist) C.C. (DeVille), (bassist) Bobby (Dall) and I were all in, and I thought Bret was, but he wanted the lion\u2019s share of the money, to the point where it makes it not possible to even do it. It\u2019s like $6 to every one of our dollars. You just can\u2019t work that way. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t do this just for the money. I do have a love for this, absolutely. But at the same time, you don\u2019t want to go out and work really hard just to make somebody else a bunch of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaels, who lives in Mechanicsburg, responded, sort of, on social media on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTo Green Day and Bad Bunny \u2014 congratulations on the Super Bowl concert,\u201d he wrote on Facebook. \u201cI cannot wait to watch it, and I cannot wait to announce a Bucket List NFL dream come true (stay tuned).<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my friend Rikki Rocket \u2014 have fun tonight with my good buddy Eddie Trunk and enjoy the Music Hall of Fame ceremony,\u201d he continued. \u201cAs always, I consider Poison to be Bobby, C.C., Rikkie and myself. I also make no bones about loving the BMB and will always have both in my life. <\/p>\n

\u201cBottom line \u2014 I love music, I love the fans and I\u2019m always forever grateful. Onward & upward and let\u2019s all focus on the positive in 2026, and the potential of a future reunion.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, Michaels didn\u2019t respond to the money claims or mention the reunion, but he did tag Rocket and give the band a tip of the cap. So, that\u2019s something, and maybe there is still hope for a Poison reunion down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bret Michaels has been in the news this week, and it has not exactly been positive thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-429706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}